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Pennywise. In Portland, Ore., sidewalk orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, complained that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny.
His rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent...
Clementine Churchill got an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from Oxford. She also got some sympathy for being Winston's wife. "He forgets there is a time for meals," observed Oxford's Public Orator, in Latin, "besides he is a perfect volcano, scattering cigar ashes all over...
The Politician. He was almost unknown for ten more years. He made no important speeches; he introduced no legislation. He fought sickness (he walked on his toes because the jarring of his heels caused him pain), studied banking and monetary problems. Finally at 55 (in 1913) he wrote the Federal...
Undergraduates' thinking developed markedly from that June day in 1940 when a Crimson editorial voiced their fear "that under the guise of preparedness (we) will be catapulted into a futile and devastating foreign war while our own democracy crashes in ruins," to the bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they...